Fowey, St Catherine's Castle c.1955
Photo ref:
F43115
Photo ref:
F43115
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Once one of the most important ports west of Bristol, Fowey in 1346 was wealthy enough to contribute 47 ships and over 700 men to Edward III's blockade of Calais. Still a major port in the 1530s, defences consisted of a chain link boom and a shore battery mounted at St Catherine's Castle.
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A Selection of Memories from Fowey
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Fowey
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I was born and brought up here. Lived away for 37 years before retiring back here. Nothing like the Fowey of my childhood, full of people who moved here because they loved it and have never stopped trying to change it to their version of a retirement idle ever since.
I was born and grew up in Fowey 1930 - 1948. It was a small tight community in those days but often visited by "outsiders " who came on holiday. I went to Fowey Girls and Infants School first, and then having "passed the Scholarship " went on to Fowey Grammar School, which my father had attended before me, journeying to Fowey by train on the old direct line from Par to Fowey in the earlier years of the ...see more
I have wonderful memories of Fowey, as a teenager I used to go and stay with a lovely lady in a cottage leading down to the centre. She had a son and daughter but I think they had left home, one to go nursing and the other in the Navy. I remember how the ships used to come into Fowey for the china clay, and the young crew used to come on to the beach with tins of fruit, and all manner of goodies. Being in my ...see more
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